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Eternity's commencement ! ! ! 
"O mortal, pray cease thy lament, 
Souls of the ji'odly shall ])raise 
The Creator of systems and rif^hteous ways; 
From within their own hearts extending', 
Their flights to Homeward are wending . 
And live in hope and in charity's love, 
In faith of His glory, here and above, 
That God now dwells within yon ; 
Thy reason is godly to know, 
Happy thy life in His preseijce, 
Sweet conscience good actions pretense. 
Enough the Universe in evolutions sighs. 
Speeds eternally the throng of lives 
Upon our own burning globe transparent, 
In firmament to other worlds translucent, 
Through space ethereal and infinite 
As one of myriad stars appearing; 
From afar its brilliant light returning 
To us, intensified! Is changing 
Into Heavenly Love, reflexing, 
His above, in all existing constellations shining. 
Now here all atoms piercing; 



Creation. 

Life's presence in us reacliing 

Transmutes, is our soul, the godly light creating; 

Love to be good and acting right. 

Hast thoa the Father forever in sight. 

Who gave you memory of thy past, 

Inveils thy future beyond the minute, last ? 

If not the godly light. 

Brighter than your earthly sight 

In thee were ever shining; 

Love to be His, is His beseeching, 

Each as party, to the charter 

Of the vessel at sea. 

Before the storm is to flee 

From the dangerous cliffs 

To the safe harbor, He gives 

To the intrepid and valorous steering, 

Each minute the wind may be veering; 

Perish the vessel, but safe are the souls 

"When done is thy duty, in sight are the shoals. 

The presence merety dots eternal time, 

A living death at Heaven's shrine 

Is your delight who godly lives, 

Has endless life, who always gives 

To Him his thanks who lives within, 

While I am here, points there come in. 

Be charitable, good and kind. 

To all who be of every mind. 

Are here thy brethren, all 

In him to live and to receive the call 



Sun and Earth. 

To others A'oluntarily extend 

Their good, which shall befriend 

A widened circle of the human mass, 

Until at last the world to class 

Their countless lives in a bliss of moment, 

The next above! To be content. 



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©HE brilliant Sun, in glory resting. 

Of worlds consumed, anew are forming 

Eternalh' in spaces, either 

Of Heaven's own transfer. 

Issuing intensest heat, 

Diffusing warmth and light to greet 

Universal systems, countless globes, 

Guiding life to far-away abodes; 

Its distance to this world beneath, 

As ours is to constellations myth. 

Almighty Grod, to suns and matter, is 

Eternal love to all creation His, 

To -our Earth daily rotating, 

Defiling before it, presenting 

Her spherical body to sight, 

The surface exposed receiving the light. 

Great is the bliss. 

Sweet is the kiss 



Sun and Earth. 

Of constant love, 

Consummate above. 

From the morning sun scaring, 

Attracting, surveying , 

With steadfast gaze, 

The distant haze; 

Enfolding the globe's 

Firmamental abode; 

As she is moving in orbit. 

By vapor.s in veiled yet, 

In darkness comj)letely enshrouded. 

When dense are the clouds and amassed. 

Rain pouring in torrents, 

Drenching, deluging contents. 

Fertilizing the crust of the Earth 

Entirely without it in dearth. 

At its height the tempest is raging. 

Fearfully the thunder is roaring. 

Flashes the lightning, igniting: 

Conscience rueing. 

Forgiveness sueing, 

Of thy soul in the grief; 

Repentance — as mercy — makes anguish but brief; 

Salvation is thine, by bravely amending 

Thy ways, to labor attending, 

Useful to you, and others 

Near you are brothers. 

Appreciating intentions well meant, 

Best seen in good actions Avell sent 

Value the mite as a gift bestoAved, 



Sun and Earth. 

Showiii<>- the heart within you is moved — 

By the power of will is charity proved. 

Contrary currents are tossinf.>\, 

Tearing and lifting- 

The scintillating orb through space, 

The vacixuin refilled, time rolling apace, 

Truly, demurely, 

Onwardly, surely. 

Daily rotates our terrestrial globe 

In its assigned abode ; 

Circling the Sun, 

To the gioi-y of God — His will be done! 

And the Sun's greeting 

Is destined of reaching, 

With warmth and light. 

Gradually, all Earth and water in sight; 

Heralding the day by dispersing, 

Dissolving, condensing 

Exhalations and gases 

Into dew-drop masses, 

As diamonds shining. 

Are settling, encircling 

The innocent brow, white as the snow, 

Skirting the garb in its emerald glow 

Of beautiful Earth's entire conclave, 

Independent rejoicing, nowhere a slave; 

And good and bad of the human existing. 

Anointed with reason inspired, are thanking 

The Creator of Suns and of light. 

Of warmth and of love in its might. 



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Sun and Earth 

For his mercy of hearts fond are to give, 

Here to his children, in Him are to live. 

Intense is the glow 

Fleeting below; 

Carrying delight 

From myriads might. 

Of dazzling rays. 

Through fiery ways, 

In infinite space abating 

Into genial air for the living. 

And the splendor of light of the days, 

Chasing from hill-toj)s the purpling rays, 

Embracing the forest, the field, and the meadow, 

Coaxing the insect from shadow}^ furrow 

Mantling the linnet, after his bath, 

Smoothing his feathers, is singing at last, 

Free and independent as the eagle. 

Above him in circle. 

Is soaring and eyeing 

The Spectre of Man! jDersistently trying 

To navigate aerial regions. 

Encompassing time, and their passions, 

Productive of good for the living, 

The body submissively following 

Genius, wherever is guiding, 

( Vide ! the venerable Seward Alaska is reaching,) 

The search after wisdom's content. 

Which the tenor of life shall present. 

Thus the globe in daily rotating, 

From the meridian sun absenting 



Sun and Earth. 

One section of Earth, 
Is others presenting in dearth; 
Behind us approacliing, 
ExjDecting- and needing, 
The powerful rays, 
Brightening their wa^'S, 
United, are eastwardly moving. 
Upon the home of the mortal remaining — 
Shows us the sweetness, 
Divine will, completeness. 
Of the virtue "benevolence." 
Render assistance 
To others existing, 
Helpless are living, 
May'st thou give. 
That they can live. 
A trifle are millions, and scarce, 
Where millions are trifles on Earth, 
Thine is the heart and the wealth to give 
The stranger who needs — let live, 
Until the Earth is weaned from light, 
Each section gratefully parting the sight; 
Their plains and prairies — the mountains at last- 
Bidding adieu to the day held fast 
In their snowy embrace, 
A merciful grace 

To the belated, in twilight, from home, 
In valleys where hut and the dome 
Shelter the weary, securely resting 
In God, for the night, as Father is watching. 



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JiX FLOWER blooms, its (charms l)espeak 
'o God's care and mine to love it; 
It bows its face so sweet and meek, 
From every swarthy summit. 

2. 

In summer, when cool folia<^'e dense, 

Is screening it so truly, 
You know it well in all the glens 

From sister playmates surely. 

3. 

Its redolence, a mighty dowry. 

Bestowed by Heaven's father; 

Which is a wealth no Avorldly glory. 
Without true heart can gather. 

4. 
Will gentle zephyrs playfully. 

Make known its lone existence ; 
The world admires carelessly, 

Where Love has no subsistence. 

5. 

The summer gone, it is no more, 

Nor can you find the spot ; 
Its fragrance led to it before, 

And now! Small deeds of heart your lot. 

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May be next year, its climbing uid a grave, 

Enclosed by wealth in mortar; 
Its odor sweet do angels crave. 

To carry Love immortal. 



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^ PLANT of tiny growth will speak 
'^ Of worlds bevoiid, of wisdom which we seek 
Its life is there, it 's born to wither, 
The root to live ! while souls go hither. 
Why is it here ? contemporaneously, 
Near me to live, and I should boldly 
Deprive of life what is divine, 
Within my reach destroy to lengthen thine ? 
And firmly rooted in the sacred soil, 
The earth in ever constant toil 
To germinate and bring to life. 
Should I mutilate, adding to strife V 
What is decreed, and surely is 
Inimitable here, designs of His 
Think serviceable. Heavenly trust, 
Because in ashes lives all earth's crust ? 
Each being to the chaos mass. 
Eternity to the hour-glass, 
A noble deed to outward bliss, 
A thought in swiftness to an infant's kiss; 
The plant benefactor in the fullest sense, 
Has neither charms nor redolence. 
Is born within periphery 
Of visage mine to visions glory; 
Its usefulness attention craved, 
From birds or insects knowing to be saved. 
Observing this the Indians of yore, 
Beyond the Hood's remote tradition coi'e, 



lo The Medicinal Plant. 

Instinctively in surety applied 
The plant, as remedy for linrts allied, 
With pain from wounds in time of war, 
Pursuit of chase or other accidents debar. 
All imitation of a pachydermal fury, 
Innate in man in whom mercy 
Had not applied the break; 
Subdiung passions through religions make, 
Hindering wrath to plunge headlong- 
God's images into death, which shall belong 
To life as guard o'er every soul's salvation. 
Thus from i^ain arose warm gratitude, 
(As well as barbarous servitude;) 
The Indians delight at vanquished pain, 
Unloosening his freedom's chain. 
Plucked herbs, preser\ing plants to jionder 
O'er the marvelous, what is divine is yonder; 
Onward sped the reputation 
Of a plant's innate power of consolation. 
Until shrunk up to dust became 
Both without record of their fame. 
By the world's sublunary sway, 
Myth and legend became order of the day. 
Superstition's bigotry, 
Cruelties and depot's rivalry. 
With lucid intervals at last, 
Of know^ledge's gleaming light to cast 
A furtive glance at tiny plants. 
Inland greening or on ocean's sands, ' 
Until Apollo rose the pagan's God of Physic, 
And Theophrastus botanized in Greece and Egyjjt, 
^sculapius had saved the life of Hippohtus, 
Was Physic taught by Paracelsus. 
Science made* a plant's true worth imperishable, 
The plant itself, of life inestimable. 



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Wherever decks the earth, the loving floor 

Shall by it, benefit the rich and poor; 

At any time at any place arise 

Nevp men, new plants to pliiralize; 

Ancient wisdom, by additional research 

To prolong a life, at best to perch 

Upon the higher branches of the presence 

Of the tree of life's existence, 

Ever green to mortals millions, 

Ever adding ages legions 

To its imperishable roots. 

The love of God to ofi'shoots, 

By suns assisted and by air. 

The one to see, and by its glare 

Breathe the other to deserve, 

The reasoning power and the nerve 

To stand the trials of a life. 

Made by ourselves as unrife, 

In wisdom comprehending 

The proper use of our senses tending 

Towards confusion in selection 

Of what is good for life's protection. 

As far as minutes are concerned 

Of what a centenarian has gained; 

A better knowledge than the rest. 

AVho end their life without true test 

Of a mortals power of endurance, 

Yet is the child superior of innocence, 

Before him goes atoning parent's sins. 

Preserved alike are both in Heaven's regions; 

For death is knowledge of the fact 

That life in him is never ending and malefactors sacked ; 

Prove human laws infringe upon divine, 

Instead of life long caging, slay penitence sublime. 



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j|| ROM the conlines of two oceans 
^'^ Rises the uatiou of men, 
Herakl of Freedom's emotions, 
To the opj)ressed in their den. 



Piercing- the darkness of ages. 
Reaches the light of the free; 

Independent forever to races, 
AlKed with us to Thee. 

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United, are liappy at home, 

In this land of Liberty's choice; 

Acknowledge the good which, alone. 
Can quicken the heart to rejoice. 



The mind is directing exertion, 
Labor is gladly performed; 

Morals shall free from coercion, 
A life bv senses misruled. 



Yii-tues encircle the cottage — 
The palace's widened aisle; 

Humanity severing bondage. 
Intolerance welded awhile. 



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Prize highly the gift of the poor, 
Of noble intentions — assurance 

Only the Union is strong to allure 
The world to Freedom's procurance. 



Learn from the people the secret, 
Where wisdom is hid among-. 

That thy thoughts to motives concrete, 
In tune with thy mirthful song. 



If actions be bright as the day, 
AVarni is the shake of the hand; 

Shall usefulness bloom in May ? 

Persevere in labor, and love this laud. 






IMMEDIATE EFFECTS UPON CALIFORNIA AS A MANUFACTURINC? 

STATE, AND UPON SAN FRANCISCO AS THE WESTERN 

CARRIER OF THE UNITED STATES COMMERCE 

TO ASIA AND TO OCEANICA. 

The following poem conveys a strong impression of the manifest 
destiny of America — not only as the hojie of oppressed mankind, but by the 
aj^plication of steam — the harbinger of charity, to six hundred millions of 
Asiatics. The entire Asia has never voluntarily traded with us, because the 
Chinese demanded material proofs of the siiperiority of our civilization over 
theirs, which we did not give lucidlj' enough. 

My idea is, that we here in America must now commence manufacturiiig 
by steam their antediltivian patteens and sell them to the Chinese at a profit, 
to the great astonishment of both. 

If we thus benefit them materially, they will speedily sympathize with us 
generally, and not only enrich us and the entire civilized world, but themselves 
become votaries to it. 

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Onward rolls the avalanche, 

Westward flows the mighty stream, 
Of the greatest worldly branch, 

Of mankind's — nations' dream. 



From New York, the eastern station. 
From Chicago's central strength, 

Collects the progress of the nation, 
To amass in San Francisco's leng;th. 



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Westward bound lias civilization spread, 

From western Asia to Euroi^e's steppes; 
From Europe to America was lead 

Arovmd the giobe to Asia's adepts. 

4. 

Four hundred millions of tlie race, 

Now in reach by one month steam, 
Shall compare what we can trace. 

Of progress since the Bible's gleam. 

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Be assured of Freedom's right. 

Vested in the soul of each; 
Stretching farther than their genii might. 

Nor worship of the sky can reach. 

6. 

Strong in will, ability and wealth, 

Superior in religion, civilization's hope, 
Shall we convince, and not by stealth. 

With China, larger than all Europe, cope. 

7. 
To benefit four hundred millions 

Is to enlarge the civilized world; 
Not only we, but mankind's legions 

Shall then rejoice, and sheathe the sword. 

8. 
To the Chinese to prove that we are wiser. 

Is to convince them through their pockets; 
Thus steam must be the strong adviser, 

Its whistle our progress sockets. 

9. 
Blessed be its vastest quickening power, 

Which, next to love, is truly our own; 
Fraternally we live and shower 

Constant happiness through its blessings known. 



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Immense the commerce flowino- Westward, 
Small in return the fear of inundation; 

Their exclusiveness is antedeluvian windward, 
Unconcerned by emigration. 

11. 

While, when here, whoever is of mankind 

Is always welcome in America; 
It is the crib in which the entire human race shall find 

The savior from tyranny: Justicia. 

12. 

We shall remember that this soil 

Is but tenanted from Almighty God ; 
Therefore, to circumstances let us adapt, and by it foil 

What is not humane among the human lot. 

18. 

Adding to work for all upon the spot. 

Discriminating well adaptedness, 
In harmony the human lot 

Cements with love their usefulness. 

14. 

As to the work itself to find, 

At all times steady, well-paid labor; 
Is not the genius of America behind 

To j)ush us on to valor ? 

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And gives us now the best of lecture 

Of how to stop the present crisis; 
Chinese goods we here must manufacture, 

Rely on steam to cheapen prices. 

16. 

Instead of losses, shall huge gain 

Kedown upon Eureka's million; 
In front are we the vanguard to attain 

What moves America in her Westward mission. 



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New factories arise in all directions, 

All laborers benefited by 
Tlie hum, supiDort the just reflection, 

That we are one beneath the sky. 

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As to the laborer here, who by his toiling- hands, 

Hls love for wife and many children shows; 
We shall iDrotect his time and wages where he stands, 

Securely his haj^piness flows. 

19. 
No umbrage does the merchant take, 

At odd demands upon the trade; 
But promptly manufactures for his sake, 

What shoes and cues suit their parade'. 

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The lesson is a sharp one surely. 

To every lukewarm hopeless one; 
Who does not now conceive completely, 

What's manifest, that will be done. 

Quite natural the eastern goods accumulate. 

And dollar stores the consequence; 
Until we rise and here create, 

A Lowell for the World's convenience. 

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The g-reat Pacific Railroad l)uilt. 

Is not to alienate, but to unite 
All national interests centering- in that guild 

Which is the World forever, now in sig-ht. 

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Reflect upon the railroad as main artery, 
^ To diffuse the progress of America- 
Shall now unite with Fulton's ocean's' mastery 
And course the world from California 
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Glorious be thj future, California! 

A new era date from San Francisco - 
We shall lead what leads America, 

To mankind shall we progress show, 

25. 

In order that thy soul retain 

The echo of these hojieful lines, 
Ride quickly to the clifi's, and near the Golden Gate remain . 

Until the foaming truth upon you shines. 

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And if by sunset you still ponder 

Upon the use of the great ocean, 
May the lions' roaring thunder 

Aid me, rousing thy emotion. 

27. 

Is not the Union now on national highway, 

Flooding our dearest home ? 
The same what Europe did in times away. 

When low tariff laid our interests low. 

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Draining Eureka of her money, 

Stagnating our manufactories' wake 
Between two tires, do we know from hearsay, 

Cho<jse to windward your escape. 

29. 

One item here, which is not there, 

One genius proving brighter; 
They will consume, and we shall bear 

The national debt much lighter. 

30. 

Similar to what the world would be, 

Without their tea, we readily surmise; 
So let us add to Chinese glee. 

What's useful here, will there surprise. 



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California wheat is destined, 

To supersede Borneo rice; 
Hark sister States combined', 

Beware to raise the price. 

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Mendocino, Teekalet, and Puo^et Souml, 

Alaska send their forest's spars, 
Pavino- well the voyag-e round, 

To the credit of Aineriean tars. 

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The telegraph connect their hearcs, 
^ Steamboats, railroads, speed the friead; 
Shall Confucius 's shade depart, 
And civilization rise, America has sent. 

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Are not these facts incentives sure, 

That g-enius is called upon 
By steam for ever to allure. 

Four hundred millions—and it 's done. 

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Towers hi<,diest our worth, 

We comprehend the nation's duty; 
To the Union give the sunlit oath 

Of thy sincerest love, fidelity. 

36. 
The globe so larg-e and odd of form. 

Is like the heart: abode of love; 
The one is hid from us beyond the bend of canopy and 
torn. 

The other hides his inmate from abo^•e. 
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Tolerance to love stands in position, 

Of an hopeful death to life eternal; 
It holds the panacopia in eveiy man's 'c(mdition 

Which God has filled to shower happmess on'all. 



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To he tolerant, we commence in schools to know 

True knowledge only (Cultivates the heart; 
Not knowledge of the wisdom others show, 

But thou shalt show upon thy own life's chart. 

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Nor knowledge either of mere theory : 

The living Book of Life among the people practice. 

Act in conformity with our institution's glory. 
Live fraternally and \ox\ are wise. 

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If thou viewest America from this sunny hight. 

Your heart all love, your head all light, / 

Intolerance in you will wean at sight 

Of e'^erv myrmidon who hows to might. 



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